Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

stacey777

i have been stock piling lateley and im storing it mainly on my hip's and bum mostly:D

stacey777

just thought of somethere if you store flour in a none air tight container. Little creatures start to develop. Think it's something to do with the yeast.

PasturesNew

stacey777 wrote: »

just thought of somethere if you store flour in a none air tight container. Little creatures start to develop. Think it's something to do with the yeast.

These are sort of weevil things that along the process might have laid eggs in the flour that ended up in the bag.

When you buy flour you shoud wrap it in a plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for a day. It kills any eggs that MIGHT be in there. Discussions on Old Style have found that most people have NEVER had any such thing happen and one person who had seen "things" had seen them only once, years ago, in a big flour store, not at home. So it's quite unlikely.

You can always sieve them out if you're a vegetarian.

PasturesNew

Cleaver wrote: »

"It may look like a scene from 28 Days Later outside but at least I have my steamed sponge pudding."

It's a silver lining I guess.

That's pretty much it.

stacey777

PasturesNew wrote: »

These are sort of weevil things that along the process might have laid eggs in the flour that ended up in the bag.

When you buy flour you shoud wrap it in a plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for a day. It kills any eggs that MIGHT be in there. Discussions on Old Style have found that most people have NEVER had any such thing happen and one person who had seen "things" had seen them only once, years ago, in a big flour store, not at home. So it's quite unlikely.

You can always sieve them out if you're a vegetarian.

thats wright them wee evil things iv seen them in my house. Didnt know about them and a discussion in work one day it came up and i went home to check out flour that had been in my cupboard for years. There very small like the size of a dust particle and you only notice them by looking for several minutes at one spot and the whole thing is alive. There in air tight containers now and i would eat them any way if i had too, that small wouldnt even notice them.

treliac

PasturesNew wrote: »

These are sort of weevil things that along the process might have laid eggs in the flour that ended up in the bag.

When you buy flour you shoud wrap it in a plastic bag and stick it in the freezer for a day. It kills any eggs that MIGHT be in there. Discussions on Old Style have found that most people have NEVER had any such thing happen and one person who had seen "things" had seen them only once, years ago, in a big flour store, not at home. So it's quite unlikely.

You can always sieve them out if you're a vegetarian.

You may be going on 'Old Style' but really, weevils are things of the distant past. You're not going to find them in your flour these days. :-)

PasturesNew

stacey777 wrote: »

There in air tight containers now

When I read about them I went straight out and bought some of those Click/Lock boxes. Next bag of flour I get I'll be popping it in the fridge ice box and flicking the switch over until it's built up some ice in there (my icebox is the sort that ou can put frozen goods into it and the next day they've thawed out)

jamespir

sb44 wrote: »

Has anyone started to stock up on basic foodstuffs etc in case they or their partners are made redundant?

I think I read somewhere that you were best to have enough dry/tinned foodstuffs in for up to 6 months (not so much frozen in case we start having power cuts).

now i no why theres no bread left in tesco lol

shaz_mum_of__2

I too stockpile forthe following reasons


a) financial crisis (there have been tough times in my life)
b) bulk buying generally saves money in the long run
c) interest earned on foodstores is better than the bank interest rate (at present)

I believe my stockpile saves me time money and worry i do not believe the end of the world is nigh!!:rolleyes:



Great thread

Shaz (who does own a gun just in case you were wondering )

Primrose

Yes, but not stocked up through fear of redundancy but because we bulk buy for convenience (saves petrol for multi trips) and to take advantage of cheaper prices.